greeted

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹiːtɪd/

greeted

1. simple past and past participle of greet
   • 1955, Joseph Heller, chapter 13, in Catch-22‎, page 133:

     He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.

• deterge